Tag: intuitive eating

  • Rebuild Trust with Your Body: A Self-Care Journey

    Rebuild Trust with Your Body: A Self-Care Journey

    Many people struggle to maintain their New Year’s resolutions focused on diet and exercise. The author urges readers to reconsider their approach to self-improvement by emphasizing the importance of listening to their bodies rather than rigid goals. The meditation practice fosters self-care, intuition, and reconnection with one’s needs for overall wellbeing.

  • The First Step

    First times can be challenging but also very exciting. Whatever we do for the first time has an element of uncertainty – even if we practiced it in our minds, visualized, or even received encouragement from others that we can do this. There is always a possibility of failure. We might not achieve what we…

  • Choices

    There are so many things that we cannot control, yet we must make choices. We make them based on a strong belief that by making the choice, we do have some influence on the future outcome. My life has been filled with such choices. I have chosen to rebel against diet culture to free myself…

  • Too Much? Too Loud? Too Big?

    I was always told I am too much of something. I was instructed not to speak so much and not to sing so loud. I was asked not to be so emotional. And, certainly, I was told not to eat so much. I was too much, too loud, and too big. For years and years,…

  • The scariest thing

    Most of my life I have been driven by fear. This motivation to avoid danger, to avoid isolation, to avoid sadness, to avoid loneliness, to avoid judgement, to avoid any kind of smaller of bigger trouble – was the main reason for everything I have accomplished. Indeed, I even feel an overwhelming fear when I…

  • In the dieter’s house

    I am spending Easter break with my family in Poland. Among other things we enjoy doing together, one of the major ones is of course feasting. We have dinners and brunches, we have cakes and traditional Polish Easter breakfast. The food tradition in Poland is just as important as in any other country. For any…

  • Disordered Eating Everywhere

    I see disordered eating almost everywhere, almost all the time. I know this may sound like a bold statement so today I will take time to explain myself. If you are interested in a relatively short read about eating disorders, this article would be a good start. There are a few missing elements in this…